"The Passion of the Christ" Thread

I had some friends that saw it. They said other than being spetacularly violent it wasn't all that interesting. They said the "last temptation of christ" was far more interesting.

just what I heard.

 

Haven't seen it, but all the reviews so far seem to be pretty postive.

I think Mel should get an Oscar for superior marketing and buzz-creation, seeing as how he tapped into the paranoia about anti-Semitism, fueled by Dad's inanities and the his own preference for the schismatic fundametalist strain of Catholicism.

It may turn out that the film is not especially controversial.

 

For those of us who haven't seen it yet, please don't give away the ending. Or at least put an (R) in the title. Thanx.

 

Your people killed him.

 

Fucking Wizards fans.

 

Or Gephardt fanatics.

 

Not even close to true, though that's never really stopped you in the past.

It seems that most everyone has a bias going into it -- if you believe that Jesus Christ is the one true Lord and Savior, you will love it because you love Jesus. If you think that Gibson is using God to make money, you're not going to be swayed into thinking that he has created great art here.

 

no offense or anything!! but can i ask how a god can be a person? and is it leagel to act as God in ur religion?

 

Wow. Clash of cultures.

1) I'll let an actual religious person answer, but I think it's under "God can do anything, he's God, isn't he?" doctrine.

2) We don't have blasphemy laws, although I don't think if I walked into Our Lady of the Angels and said I was Jesus that they would seat me in the most comfortable chair in the cathedral.

 

OR


C) Both of the above.

Which is why I'm not going to go see Mel Gibson's Cash Wednesday Extravaganza.

 

I saw a rough cut of the film in January, and out of all the reviews I've seen so far, Roger Ebert's is by far the most thoughtful and he puts forth the most effort to reckon with the film's theological considerations.

Ebert cited David Ansen's review in Newsweek as a legitimate criticism of the film that voices the concerns of people who feel the movie goes too far. I read Ansen's review as well and agree that it is thoughtful, but I personally don't agree with his evaluation of the film, likely because I came into it with different presuppositions and from a different context.

In the end, context will dictate how people view and evaluate the film, many will very legitimately see very different things when viewing this film.

ricv56

 

#### you.

Haven't seen it, but all the reviews so far seem to be pretty postive.

I didn't claim to have read all of them...and I said "pretty positive."

So to the leftist qualities of pessimism, cynicism, condenscesion, distintintion-blurring and demagoguery, I am now pleased to add gratuitous personal attacks and gross smugness borne of self-satisfying "gotcha" nitpicking.

Great to be you, eh?

Most everyone?? You're all over MY ass, but where are YOUR survey results??

This statement of yours is so ludicrously illogical, so sweeping in its generalization, so self-righteous is its superfical conclusiveness, it's a complete waste of screen pixels.

Great to be you, eh?

 

Critics

If you want a true indication of what the critics think of this movie, try this website:

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/ThePassionoftheChrist-1129941/reviews.php?page=1

Any movie that get's just over 50% approval from the major movie critics (74 critics thus far) is not a movie that will go down as all that signigicant - which was Mel Gibson's failed attempt. This is quite possibly the best gage you'll get on whether it is a good movie. Just look at movies that are known to be good or classic greats and see how their ratings are portrayed accordingly on this website. Makes sense, since it averages out a vast number of reviews from columnists.

 

The Prayers of the Liberals

1) Dont get OBL before November
2) Keep the economy down
3) No movie about Christianity can be popular or good.

 

if i go today, does that mean i can skip out of ash wed mass?

 

Just got back from it. It's weird seeing your Lord & Savior treated pornographically. I can't believe people are taking their kids to see this. It's like Pasolini's Salo without the artistry or spirituality. If this is Gibson's interpretation of what's important in Christianity, then I'm not surprised that he's a manic depressive with suicidal tendencies.

 

We tend to love "Last Temptation."

 

That's why I have no intention of seeing it. Does someone really need to see this to get an idea of what Christ's final hours were like?

On another point, I'm sure anyone who has given the movie a bad review because they claim it's anti-semitic probably had no problem with the free speech issue when some artists used human feces and urine on paintings of Christ and the Virgin Mary several years ago and called it art.

You can't have it both ways.

 

So how is it censorship to say that a movie sucks?

By that standard, would you consider Gigli and Ishtar to be powerful, revolutionary and challenging films?

 

Gringo...I will see the movie tomorrow, but wanted to comment on your post.

The movie, from all accounts, accurately portrays the account of the Gospels. The cross is the most important point of Jesus ministry. It is why he came to earth...so that he could take on the sins of the world, and that through faith in Him, and his love for us, that we can be saved.

The fact that God allows himself to be treated in this way proves how much he loves the world. He could have called down 12 legions of angels at any point. He freely allows himself to go through hell, so that I will not have to. Even though I am sinful and fall short of His glory on a daily basis. He would allow himself to be a sacrafice for the world, so that the world, through Him, can be saved.

Without the Cross, their is no redemption. The cross to me means victory over sin. It is my sin that put him there on that cross, and it is His love for me that allows me to be redemned. It is that he rose from the dead three day's later that I can know that my sins are not only forgiven, but that I too, through faith, have everlasting life.

Satan is very active right now. He is doing all he can to diminish this film as a witness for the truth.

 

There's a really tasteless joke I could put in here, but I'll pass.

 

No it doesn't. It portrays the last 12 hours of Jesus' life and includes all kinds of dialogue and charcterizations that are nowhere to be found in the Bible.

That's all fine and dandy, but the movie is about the voyeristic torture of another human being- not about the sacrifice of a god.

There's more preaching in your quote here than in Mel Gibson's whole ********ing movie.

I think Satan's very active in promoting this film right now- probably in the form of a Jewish Hollywood exec. I can't think of a better way to turn nonbelievers away from Jesus than to show thim Gibson's pornographic piece of shit.